Christ the King Church, Wimbledon Park

Church in Wimbledon Park, United Kingdom

51°26′05″N 0°11′54″W / 51.434744°N 0.198409°W / 51.434744; -0.198409LocationWimbledon ParkCountryUnited KingdomDenominationRoman CatholicWebsiteChristTheKingParish.org.ukHistoryStatusActiveFounded1913 (1913)Founder(s)Society of JesusDedicationChrist the KingArchitectureFunctional statusParish churchArchitect(s)Adrian Gilbert ScottStyleItalianateGroundbreaking1926Completed1928AdministrationProvinceSouthwarkArchdioceseSouthwarkDeaneryMerton^[1]

Christ the King Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Wimbledon Park area of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton. It was founded in 1913, and built in 1926 by the Society of Jesus. The architect was Adrian Gilbert Scott.^[2]

History

In 1877, The Jesuits came to Wimbledon at the request of Edith Arendup, a member of the Courtauld family, from Roehampton where they had their novitiate, Manresa House. In 1887, she commissioned the building of Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon. From that church the Jesuits ministered to the Catholics of the area. From 1913, Fr Ignatius O'Gorman SJ travelled to the Catholics in the Wimbledon Park area.^[2]

Originally, the rector of the Sacred Heart Church only allowed one Sunday Mass to be said in the area. In 1926, the rector and the Bishop of Southwark, Peter Amigo allowed for Fr O'Gorman to have the church built. Adrian Gilbert Scott designed the church and it was completed in 1928. The church, a chapel of ease of Sacred Heart Church was going to be dedicated to Saint Austin, but in 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King, so the church was dedicated to Christ the King. The church hall remained dedicated to St Austin.^[3]

In 1955, the church ceased to be a chapel of ease and became a parish church. The first parish priest was Fr Jordan SJ. In 1959, administration of the church was handed over by the Jesuits to the Diocese of Southwark who continue to serve the parish.^[3]

Parish

The church has five Sunday Masses. One is at 6:00pm on Saturday evening, at 8:30am and 10:30am on Sunday morning and at 5:30pm on Sunday afternoon. There is also a Mass in Polish at 12:45pm every Sunday. There are weekday Masses at 9:30am from Monday to Saturday.^[4]

Interior

References

^ Deaneries from Archdiocese of Southwark retrieved 16 March 2014
^ ^a ^b Christ the King Wimbledon Park from English Heritage retrieved 16 March 2014
^ ^a ^b About from Christ the King Parish, retrieved 5 February 2014
^ Christ the King, Wimbledon Park from Catholic Directory, retrieved 16 March 2014

External links

Media related to Christ the King Church, Wimbledon Park at Wikimedia Commons
Christ the King Parish site

Churches in Merton

ancient parish
churches (pre-1800)

St Lawrence, Morden
St Mary, Wimbledon
St Mary the Virgin, Merton
St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham

Anglican
daughter churches

Christ Church, Colliers Wood
St Barnabas, Mitcham
St George, Morden
St James, Morden
St John the Baptist, Wimbledon
St John the Divine, Merton
St Luke, Wimbledon
St Olave, Mitcham

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